58 i/éJLtJ 1ww The Cologne of the Yea for the I '\ \ Man of the Hour! \1 îÞ ) v . <-<::r I J 1, J /f / v /:!-l( t' -- f\ ; ..........' Artchil Gourielli .., . himself created this " superb cologne for men who know that a man's cologne is part of his good grooming. New. . . suave. . . very man's man- Here's How is your special toast to "the man" in your life! A conversation-piece in its cocktail-shaker bottle! HERE'S H'OW COLOGNE 3.50. AFTER-SHAVE LOTION 2.50. TALC 1.50. Prices plus tax "" "r ",âk ' "/,,:,,dfp. " 'I , :$ #ere' I = H fI I 16 East 55th Street'9 New York 22 veloped mostly in saloon and street- corner talk, but it had sporadic support in newspapers, too-in large Northern cities as well as in the South. There was a distinct air of deadpan race patri- otism in the Tribune's story (in its gen- eral-news columns) of the arrival of Jess ,^Tillard at Pennsylvania Station a few days after he won the champion- ship from Johnson, in Havana, in 1 915. "Although a Negro quarter borders on Seventh Avenue," wrote the Tribune re- . " porter, In part, not more than half a dozen N e- groes were seen in the '-' vicinity of the station all the evening. The few '-' that sauntered past got a reception that caused them to hasten their steps." Pseudo-physiology became fashion- able while J ohnsonwas champion, and a quantity of scientific and philosophical doctrine found its way into print. The purport of most of this was twofold: ( ]) that human intelligence increases in direct proportion to the amount of Caucasian blood and (2) that Negroes have thicker skulls than white men. (A sportswriter, quoting a learned au- thority, but not. by name, put the aver- age difference in skull thickness at one inch.) The bearing of these points on Johnson's case is obscure, since his chief asset in the ring was intelligence coupled with speed and an airtight defense, and almost no one ever hit him on the skull. The liveliest newspaper prose of the period appeared on the sports pages, which abounded in quotations from managers of white hopes. The managers were enjoying an unusual reputation for credibility, hecause the public was disposed to believe the best of every new white hope who came along and to accept each Caucasian farm boy freshly severed from his father's plow as a giant of strength and a boxing genius. Size was stressed when- '-' v ever possible in the eXploitation of white hopes; there were \\Tillard, the Potta- watomie Giant; Jim Coffey, the Irish (or Roscommon) Giant; Cad Morris, the Sapulpa Giant; and Fred Fulton, the Giant of the North. A good propor- tIon of the hopes were, in fact, bigger than J ohnson,who, though he fought at weights ranging from a hundred and '-' '-' '-' ninety-five to two hundred and twenty pounds, stood only a quarter of an inch over six feet. Carl Morris, the Sapulpa (Oklahoma) Giant, who was born in Kentucky, of Irish-Cherokee ancestry, and prepared for his boxing career as a locomotive engineer on the Frisco line, in Oklahoma, was six feet four and JUNE 2, 5, 1 9 of 9 weighed two hundred and forty pounds. "'lillard's height was six SIX. '-' A piece about Morris in the Evening Sun of August 29, 1911, when he was training in New Jersey for his first Eastern fight, with Jim Flynn, at the old Madison Square Garden, shows the low resistance to white hopes that pre- vailed. Flynn, a much smaller man, was moribund as a white hope, having previously been knocked out by J ohn- son. MorrIs had then been fighting less than a <- '-' rear. The Sun's story filled two columns. It was accompanied by a cd photograph of Morris ex- tending his arms full length (reach: eight) -four inches) and was surmounted by a six-part headline of alternating type, as follows: -\ WHITE HOPE IX THE !vLA.KIXG CARL MORRIS AKD Ho,v HE TRAINS AT ALLEKHURST AX CXlJSUAL 1L-\X HE [s l\lIGHTY OF BODY AND PLEASANT OF FACE HAS '\ \VISE l\10DESTY SAYS HE Is NOT ABLE TO BEAT JACK JOI-INSOX TODAY In describing the prodigy piecemeal (except for his non-Caucasian Chero- kee blood), the Sun said of Morris's hands: "It is easy to irpagine one of them the head of some giant's club. . · . It would be more pl;asan t to be kicked in the face by a cleated football boot than to be struck by that hand." Several months earlier, the Cincinnati Enquirer had carried a story, headed "1fORRIS, \\THITE M.AN'S HOPE, IS THE SE SA TIOK OF SAPULPA," that told of Morris's impact on the town where he lived. Sapulpa, it said, had "gone wild over the big hope." Strangerswaitin"z for a change of train I.,..; '- at the Frisco's station there were taken to see him. Babies were named for him. Local boomers (boosters), who had formerly used letterheads reading, "Sapulpa, the metropolis of the great Oklahoma oil-and-gas belt," now sub- . stituted the line "Sapulpa, home of Carl Morris, Oklahoma's hope of the white race." The tale was repeated in the press of how Morris had happened to become a white hope. It was a sudden, romantic decision. Coming into Sapul- pa from a freight run on the evening of July 4, 191 U, Morris heard that J ohn- son had that day knocked out Jeffries, the bulwark of the race. Turning to the statio telegrapher (as Casey Jones once turned to the fireman), Morris said, "Then I'll quit this job right here. I'm going to be a fighter and whip the